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/ 1 December 2009
Namibia’s ruling party was heading on Tuesday for a big election win but results so far showed the two-thirds majority is under threat.
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/ 1 December 2009
Namibia’s general elections last week were ”free and fair”, observers from neighbouring countries said on Monday.
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/ 30 November 2009
First results from Namibia’s elections trickled in on Monday, but too few to show whether a new opposition would break up the ruling party’s majority.
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/ 27 November 2009
Namibians began voting on Friday in elections expected to return the ruling Swapo to power, despite a tough challenge from a new breakaway party.
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/ 27 November 2009
When Hifikepunye Pohamba first ran for Namibian president five years ago, Sam Nujoma was still seen as the power behind the throne.
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/ 20 November 2009
A new opposition party could score votes from disillusioned ‘born-frees’, writes John Grobler.
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/ 26 October 2009
South African industrial group Bidvest debuted on the Namibian Stock Exchange on Monday, raising N,6-million, the company said.
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/ 15 October 2009
At first glance it seemed a rather bizarre story. Namibia’s newspapers last week reported on an ”Open Day” at the Windhoek crematorium.
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/ 8 September 2009
SABMiller announced on Tuesday that it has been granted a licence by the Namibian government to brew and bottle beer in Namibia.
A fur firm has begun culling seals in Namibia after animal rights activists failed to pay the millions of dollars they pledged to buy out the company.
A court on Wednesday delayed a bail hearing for three people charged with corruption over a deal with a firm linked to the son of China’s president.
Two European journalists were fined on Friday by a court in Namibia for filming the annual seal hunt along the coast of the Southern African nation.
The country was well on its way to reducing child mortality, but over the past decade the pandemic has annulled previous gains.
First the long knives were out for Namibia’s President Hifikepunye Pohamba, now they are willing to fall on their swords and die for him.
More than 200 000 people in Namibia have been affected by flooding near the northern border with Angola since January, the UN said on Friday.
The cancellation of a popular phone-in show on Namibia’s national broadcaster has raised fears that the ruling party is clamping down on media freedom
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/ 16 February 2009
The Fortuner has independent double wishbones at the front, but aside from that, it shaped up nicely.
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/ 3 December 2008
A Namibian court has granted bail to an SA journalist arrested for allegedly entering the country on a tourist visa in order to do reporting.
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/ 28 November 2008
A tribunal ruled on Friday that 78 white Zimbabweans can keep their farms because the government’s land-reform scheme discriminated against them.
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/ 19 November 2008
An elderly woman slowly looks around her new farmland, her wrinkled face lighting up with a shy little smile as suddenly she claps her hands.
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/ 30 October 2008
"Obama represents the unity of humanity. Dare I say it? This is a man who might go down in history as ‘Barack the Great’.”
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/ 16 October 2008
The Van der Merwe family share their Namibian home with 400 animals and, occasionally, Angelina Jolie. Britt Collins reports.
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/ 10 October 2008
Being forced to speak Afrikaans for years didn’t help Namibians with English language proficiency, writes Moses Magadza.
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/ 22 September 2008
A treasure-laden 16th-century Portuguese vessel that ran aground off Namibia’s Atlantic coast was hailed on Monday by archaeologists.
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/ 16 September 2008
A mystery shipwreck laden with gold discovered off the coast of Namibia in April is a 16th-century Portuguese vessel that was bound for Asia.
Having lost their only income source when the Uis tin mine shut down, a community in the Namibian desert is slowly being resurrected by locals.
A bombshell has burst over the Toscanini diamond mine on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast after two of its American investment broker were arrested last week.
Namibia will impose a ban on all trade in ”worked ivory” from next month in a bid to abide by international regulations on endangered species.
A storm of public protest has erupted over Namibian authorities’ decision to allow six Kunene region elephant bulls to be shot as trophies.
An associate of the Swapo activist presents new evidence to solve the murder, writes John Grobler.
Namibia’s ambassador to Berlin has demanded that German universities return dozens of human skulls, remains of the colonial-era Herero massacre.
Eight Southern African coastal states have agreed to set up a regional task force to deal with illegal fishing in their waters and save fish stocks.